FRESHWATER BAY (Bonavista) - A very picturesque inlet on the west side of
Bonavista Bay. The great Northern mail road in process of construction
passes the head of the bay, but it is not sufficiently made for travelling. The
Gambo Ponds discharge their waters into this bay through the Gambo brook,
and the land is well wooded. Distance from Salvage by boat 23 miles.
Mail weekly. Population 55(Excerpt from Lowell's Newfoundland Directory 1898).

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Classmates.com is Sued

You may recall that Classmates.com was a website that first showed up in the 90s, and tried to do what Friendster and Facebook were later able to do. The problem was that Classmates.com's business model was to charge users for many of its features, including actually connecting with and contacting your classmates -- things that more recent social networks have always allowed for free. However, if you ever used Classmates.com for anything, you've probably been spammed with emails for years, each one claiming that your classmates are looking for you, or had recently viewed your profile. Nearly every email sent by the company (and they seem to come about once a week) has some enticing subject line that tries to suggest that something is happening with your profile and you're missing out if you don't upgrade to a premium account.

I've always ignored these emails, figuring that if any of my former high school classmates really wants to contact me, there are plenty of ways to do so that don't require me to pay up -- and naturally assumed that Classmates.com was exaggerating what was happening on the site. Some folks, however, believed the emails and upgraded. And, now, one of those who upgraded his account to see which classmates were trying to contact him, discovered (surprise, surprise) that Classmates.com was lying to him. His classmates weren't trying to contact him via the site, and so he's now suing the company for deceptive advertising, and demanding that the company refund subscription fees for everyone who was similarly duped.

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I hold all the memories of my beloved Newfoundland deep within me.
I will carry them with me wherever I go for I am a product of my Native land-
the sum of my past experiences and childhood dreams.Roderick Brentnall is a freelance writer from Newfoundland living in Toronto